The
day would come eventually for Jeff
and Dan to assess free long-distance calling with some
objectivity.

After all, peering requires lots of bells and
whistles with many more tools.

The equipment of a node begins innocently
enough. A sip-phone here and a PSTN gateway there. And then
there is the hop-on, hop-off configuration along with hours of
learning SER, Asterisk and even SIPSimple. In a few months a
peer has spent $1,000 and a whole slice of life. And for what? So
we all can dialup the world for free.

Here at sip2sip.org we wish to thank all of you who
work to fulfill the promise. The world owes a special debt of
gratitude to heroes like Jeff and Dan and the many unsung heroes
of the DARPA/ARPANET. How can we sufficiently thank the Kahns,
Cerfs and Metcalfes, Pulvers and Berningers? One way is to
innovate. Seek out the Jonathan Rosenbergs and Stefan Chekanovs.
Find the Darren Yeungs of this world and keep picking their
brains.

So! Where are we now? Where is the "free"
in calling the world for free. It is really a simple
configuration that takes complex knowledge of the setup routines.
You need a computer now, whereas before the onset of TigerJet and
MagicJack USB you needed only a router and ATA and PSTN. We
have always needed a phone and an ISP and public telephone system.
It is simple if you know what you are doing or someone else
who does, otherwise you now must use your computer too, leaving it
on all the time.

Where are we going from here? First we need to
understand the lesson that we cannot do anything alone. From
our perspective at sip2sip.org there is but one approach to this
problem of unity. It is the approach we have advocated for
many years, more than twenty years now. This isn't our own
idea, just an adaptation of a good one. As our website works
at advancing our approach, we expect the true believers will want
to be a part of it.

A thumbnail of the approach is to identify and
connect to the islands of underutilized capacity. If a
mutual benefit can be established beyond free worldwide data
transmission then the approach will succeed. A good example
is a digital download product. You just keep selling the
permission to download. Everybody gets what they want. These
islands of underutilized capacity can support a
worldwide mesh for free international calling. There just needs to
be something in it for them. Exceeding the bandwidth allocation is
where the first cost increment is experienced. Employee costs are
naturally implied with any kind of growth.

sip2sip.org will look at the problem in a our own
special way so all will benefit from the strength of
membership. Large numbers of people, yes. But we need large
groups of people and many diverse groups of them, too. All peoples
have much in common. We have more in common with each other than
the elements of our makeup which sets us apart. Our world consists
of more than advertising and commissions. And our world is
safer if we can communicate freely and free of charge.

How
to use multiple realms on the same server

If
you run an OpenXCAP server for multiple domains you must inform
the server under which domain you want to be authenticated
otherwise the authentication will be performed under the default
realm defined in the server configuration. The IETF has specified
a special host name for the xcap server (xcap.example.com) in
order to detect the domain name. In the real-world, for a multi
domain environment it is likely that the same server using the
same hostname will serve xcap documents for subscribers under
multiple domains. Following the IETF recommandation, when using
TLS one should purchase certificates for each domain it serves
and should have in DNS for each domain it hosts an A record for
the XCAP server address, which is not efficient.

We
have solved this problem in the following way.

If
the client is using user@domain notation in the XCAP URLs,
OpenXCAP will work out of the box. We have noticed however that
this functionality is not always available in today's clients. To
fix the problem so that the server works for any client you must
indicate in the client xcap-root url URL the domain your belong
to as follows:

Download
Formats:

BUY
AN AMERICAN MADE ENCLOSURE AND GET FREE INSURANCEFREE
SERVER INSURANCE WILL SAVE YOU SUBSTANTIAL MONEY

Click
here for details

If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can
e-mail us at xxxxxxxx@sip2sip.org.
However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate
office, we may be unable to provide a direct response.